Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Our best history is still poetry.